DS Performance gets an eighth season of Formula E

SPORTSAREENA.comJanuary 12, 2023

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The ninth season of the ABB FIA Formula E championship gets underway on Saturday 14 January on the Mexico City circuit. It’s a key second that may mark the debut of the Gen 3 automobile, which is extra highly effective, environment friendly, and lighter than its predecessor. DS Performance has been concerned because the constructors’ championship first began (in Season 2) and now begins its eighth season on the sharp finish of the 100% electrical championship.

It’s a long-term engagement that mirrors the will to develop expertise switch and picture the mobility of tomorrow. Created similtaneously DS Automobiles itself in 2014, the competitors arm of the French producer has racked up an spectacular assortment of podiums and victories within the ABB FIA Formula E championship, with two double titles, 15 victories, 44 podiums and 21 pole positions.

DS Performance then and now

When it made its debut in 2014, DS Performance was organised as a start-up. This means of working, synonymous with agility, allowed the corporate to supply a primary powerplant in document time and to take 4 pole positions and 4 podiums in its debut Formula E season (2015-2016).

Strengthened by such a promising begin, the competitors division of DS progressively restructured and strengthened itself. Season after season, the engineers developed automobiles that had been an increasing number of dependable and aggressive. And the very first automobile created for Gen 2 went on to make historical past for DS Performance and Formula E because of a primary double title (groups and drivers) gained with Jean-Eric Vergne in Season 5 (2018-2019). This exploit can be repeated the next yr with one other double title – sweeping up each the groups and drivers’ classifications once more – with Antonio Felix Da Costa.

There had been no titles for DS Performance in Seasons 7 and eight however the group stored up a strong tempo among the many championship frontrunners, ending third within the Teams classification in each 2021 and 2022. These constant outcomes allowed the squad to finish the Gen2 period with a document quantity of factors and podiums

Today, after two years of strong work, DS Performance is able to take to the observe in Mexico with the brand new DS E-TENSE FE23. This is a third-generation automobile on the innovative of electrical expertise, which will probably be raced by reigning champion Stoffel Vandoorne in addition to Jean-Eric Vergne, Formula E’s solely double world champion.

The competitors arm of DS Automobiles has now gone from an organisation in ‘start-up’ mode to a real commando power: completely devoted to the Formula E programme and succesful of elevating DS to struggle towards essentially the most prestigious producers on this planet. A passionate group of women and men, on the service of DS Automobiles, with a core mission to switch expertise.

In the identical highway to trace spirit, the DS E-TENSE PERFORMANCE prototype developed by DS Performance is one other vital and ultra-efficient asset relating to analysis and improvement. Equipped with two Formula E engines, this prototype is a high-performance laboratory that permits a number of components to be examined with a view to future industrial manufacturing. Carrying out these life-sized exams permits DS to search out options that make elements extra dependable, and decrease manufacturing prices.

Thanks to the amassed experience of DS Performance, DS Automobiles has established itself as a benchmark relating to electrification, providing all its fashions (New DS 3, DS 4, New DS 7 and DS 9) with a full electrical possibility as effectively. Under the E-TENSE label, DS Automobiles sells 100% electrical automobiles in addition to rechargeable hybrids, which put out as much as 360 horsepower, full with four-wheel drive.

Performance autos such because the DS 9 E-TENSE 4×4 360 or the New DS 7 E-TENSE 4×4 360 are the flagships of DS Automobiles, integrating ideas and powertrain architectures which are instantly derived from Formula E. Conceived inside a particular division of Stellantis Motorsport and intently linked to DS Performance’s engineers, these sporting fashions recreate the Formula E expertise. It’s a synergy that instantly advantages each DS Automobiles buyer.

From 2024, all the brand new fashions launched by DS will probably be 100% electrical. More than ever, the model’s involvement in Formula E is on the very coronary heart of what it does. For this Season 9, DS Performance’s goal is obvious: successful again the titles with a famend new companion, PENSKE AUTOSPORT.

Quotes

“DS Performance is a real success story. Thanks to the quality, passion, and talent of its mechanics, engineers, and drivers, the Stellantis Group’s premium French brand has made Formula E history with a record number of wins and podiums. DS Automobiles created its competitions department, DS Performance, with the clear ambition of gathering all the necessary experience to accelerate its electrification strategy and increase its reputation. This strategy has delivered results immediately thanks to high-performance rechargeable hybrid powerplants as well as 100% electric units. Continuing on from this step, our all-new GEN3 DS E-TENSE FE23 single-seater developed by DS Performance will allow us to bring experience from the track to the latest generation of electric road cars. From 2024 in fact, all the new cars from our brand will be 100% electric.”

Eugenio Franzetti, DS Performance Director

“All the motorsport expertise gained by DS Performance has been put into the event of the DS9 E-TENSE 4×4 360 and DS7 E-TENSE 4×4 360. Innovative power administration methods have additionally been invented consequently, particularly in phrases of power restoration. We see the rigorous calls for of competitors utilized to on a regular basis use within the manufacturing of the DS9 E-TENSE 4×4 360 at a devoted workshop in Poissy. Every automobile advantages from a particular set-up developed by a specialised group, simply as is the case for our racing machines, so as to ship optimum efficiency on the highway.

Jean-Philippe Delaire, DS9 E-TENSE 4×4 360 and DS7 E-TENSE 4×4 360 Project Chief: